I've been struggling to make this work but I am not very good with regex. This is what I tried to do and it didn't work (after 50 minutes, still going on with no visible change):
while IFS= read -r ...

I received some important files via mail. There are about 150 files like these. The extensions of the files are named as zip1,zip2,zip3, zip_ etc. I just want to change the extension of these files ...

I am trying to rename a bunch of songs using metaflac (sudo apt-get install flac) from their respective tags recursively, because I'm dealing with an unknown number of subfolders.
Output should be: ...

I have 700 folders that I want to rename. All these folders together are located in one single folder. I know the locations of all the folders on disk.
I also have the folder names in a data sheet. ...

I have looked on the web on multiple sites but I can't seem to find a solution and the man page is not clear (I'm a beginner with the CLI). This is my problem: I have about 200 files in a directory, ...

I want to have an automated script run every day, it renames my photos to creation date and location, something like this 2014-09-Paris-001.jpg 2014-09-Paris-002.jpg etcetera
and then resize a copy ...

I have multiple files in a directory over 200 which I would like to rename by removing all other characters including the character and the rest after it appears twice.
Example:
One of the files in ...

I have a large number of images that I copied from a failing external hard drive. All of the images are fine and have no corruption, but oddly a large number of them are now missing extensions. The ...

I have only spent 5 months with Ubuntu and it has been an awesome experience, I hardly boot into Windows now, but there are some things I miss, like the Bulk Rename Utility I used to have in Windows.
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I have generated a time-lapse series of images and have named them sequentially {0000..9999}.jpg
This isn't great for browsing the whole set as it's harder to tell when a given image was taken from ...

I have a list of thousand files which have filenames with .txt.txt appended twice, I want to remove the second .txt from the file. for eg.
File1.txt.txt is the original file.
I want to rename it to ...

I need to change my directory structure for my photos from /YEAR/MONTH/DAY/ to /YEAR-MONTH-DAY
I know this can sort of be done with exiftool, but it will only work on files containing EXIF-tags, and ...

I have a ton of files, all named stuff like 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, and so on up to 1439.jpg, however, I have a problem with one of my projects and alphabetizing. It will usually go in the order 1.jpg, ...

Looking for a GUI mass file renamer that can be run from a selection of files in Nemo. Nemo has a built-in placeholder for a mass rename tool so you can provide the name of the app to run to rename ...

This Q and A will cover a very specific yet common case: given many files with the same or similar name each in its own directory, create a copy of each of them in their original directory but with ...

I am using Wordpress Eazyest gallery to create 2000 galleries. Some files have double or triple dashes in filenames. For instance: abc---def.jpg These files are uploaded via FTP.
On Wordpress admin ...

I have a directory with about 10 files and I want to remove the last three characters from the names of all of these files. Anyone know a terminal command that can do this?
And separately, how would ...

I have been trying to batch rename a bunch of files so that they are consistent and fit within the name structure that I have come up with. For instance,I am renaming comics, and so I have a directory ...

Ok Im finding all the rename options on this site and around the entire internet a hassle I for one would like to rename batch files like in windows where I put in the name and it renames all files ...

So I've got a folder with 2n files. n them are .foo files, n of them .bar files. I want to copy the filenames of the .foo files (which are all different) to the .bar files ordered alphabetically. The ...

Suppose I have a folder with some 20 files (say, photos I took on a trip), and I want to rename them in one go, only there isn't any specific Perl expression I want to use (for example, if I'd like to ...

I have a lot of video files that are in mixed formats (.avi, .mkv, .wmv) that I need to change to ".mp4". All of the video files are within one main directory, but also flow into sub directories under ...

Need to convert hundreads of pdf files across several folders. pdf2djvu gui is junk on windows and always crashes after a couple of conversions.
Taking this code of which I am working from
for file ...

I have hundreds of files with different names that I want to translate into a different language.
Is there an application/CLI action that would allow me to copy all this names as in a list/table and ...